FarPoint Technologies Announces Spread for SharePoint
Component Vendor Releases Spreadsheet Web Part with Event Subscription
MORRISVILLE, NC — July 10, 2008 – FarPoint Technologies has announced the release
of Spread for SharePoint. Spread for SharePoint is a Microsoft® Windows SharePoint® Server v3 (WSS3.0) integrated spreadsheet Web Part. Through Spread for SharePoint, SharePoint site owners can bind to SharePoint lists to provide users with a feature-rich, customizable spreadsheet experience. Addressing the needs of the SharePoint users, administrators, developers and system integrators, Spread for SharePoint offers a range of capability from a company specializing in enterprise spreadsheet solutions.
Spread for SharePoint presents SharePoint list data in a dynamic and flexible spreadsheet that is integrated with SharePoint List View customizations including column visible, column order, sort, filter, group by and totals. Users have a complete data-binding experience where changes to the data are immediately reflected back to the SharePoint list and changes to the SharePoint list data made outside of Spread for SharePoint are automatically reflected in the spreadsheet. Users can personalize their view of SharePoint lists by setting column format elements: background color, text color, font, borders, and alignment through the use of a built-in tool bar. Dynamic data analysis can be performed on the data through the use of conditional formatting and multiple-level filtering. Through Spread for SharePoint, users can also save the current view of the list to PDF, Excel 97-2003(XLS), or Excel 2007(XLSX) documents.
“We recognize that SharePoint professionals need rich tools to effectively manage list data,” said FarPoint CEO Rick Williamson, “so we have leveraged our expertise in spreadsheet technologies to produce a spreadsheet component for SharePoint to address these needs.”
SharePoint developers can create custom SharePoint Spreadsheet Web Parts by extending the unsealed base class of Spread for SharePoint. The unsealed base class is part of the Enterprise Edition of the product. System integrators can codelessly incorporate SharePoint lists into event-driven, pub-sub scenarios by subscribing web services, external to SharePoint, to SharePoint list events through the Event Subscription and Routing functionality provided in the Tool Pane of Spread for SharePoint. This functionality is available in the Enterprise Edition of the product. This is yet another innovation from a company that has received the SD-Times Top 100 innovators award.
Availability
FarPoint Spread for SharePoint is available directly from FarPoint Technologies at (800) 645-5913 or (919) 460-4551. The Standard Edition has a suggested retail price of $995 (and is available at an introductory price of $695) and the Enterprise Edition has a suggested retail price of $1495.
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